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- From: harvey@indyvax.iupui.edu
- Subject: Re: Decnet Packets over Sun Router ??
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- Date: 24 Jul 92 19:50:35 -0500
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- In article <1992Jul23.193824.15759@eco.twg.com>, reece@eco.twg.com (Reece R. Pollack) writes:
- >
- > In article <1992Jul22.200123.3530@arizona.edu>, leonard@telcom.arizona.edu
- > |>| In article <1992Jul20.151114.9155@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu>, redmill@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu (Keith A.
- > |>| Redmill) writes:
- > |>| |> I have a Sun 4 (IPC) with two ethernet cards running as a router for
- > |>| |> a small subnet. I would like to install some vax stations under this
- > |>| |> subnet but Decnet packets don't seem to make it through the sun routed
- > |>| |> software.
- > |>| |>
- > |>| |> Can this be done??
- > |>There's one more solution which we use here in similar situations:
- > |>if the VAXen are running MultiNet, then just set up MultiNet to
- > |>encapsulate DECnet IV in TCP/IP. (You also need a friendly
- > |>VAX on the backboneward side of the Sun to pull the DECnet
- > |>out of the TCP/IP packets and route them onward to the
- > |>rest of your DECnet.) A fast, reliable, cheap solution (assuming
- > |>you've already got MultiNet!)
- >
- > Or WIN/TCP. The next release (called Pathway for VMS V1.0; don't ask why)
- > also supports DECnet over IP.
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- Is the method used compatible with the method used by MultiNet?
-
- > --
- > Reece R. Pollack
- > Senior Software Engineer
- > The Wollongong Group, Inc.
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- James Harvey IUPUI OIT Technical Support/Networks
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